First edition of the famed ethnobotanist's handy pocket guide to ayahuasca, cannabis, true and false peyotes, belladonna, and many exciting mushrooms.
Very good.
Price: $550.00
"Ayahuasca is popular for its 'telepathic properties,' for which, of course, there is no scientific basis."
This compact handbook surveys botanical hallucinogens of the Old and New World, their history, cultivation, modes of use, and reported effects: from the classic Amanita muscaria, Siberian "orgiastic inebriant," to Heimia salicifolia, a flowering loosestrife of Mexico whose fermented leaves produce "shrinkage of the world" and auditory hallucinations and Lobelia tupa, the "devil's tobacco" popular in parts of Chile. Also included are several poisonous pseudohallucinogens which, judiciously ingested, produce interesting states of delirium as well as organ failure, probably.
Read more: Romero, "The Father of Psychedelics? Just a Plant Guy."
First printing. New York / Racine, WI: Golden Press / Western Publishing Company, (1976). 6'' x 4''. Original red pictorial wrappers. 160 pages. Illustrated in color throughout by Smith. Light edgewear, rubbing, faint creasing to wrappers. Previous owner's stamp to lower edge, inside front and rear cover, and title page. Else sound.
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